1001 Albums Summary

Arrogance gave him up - Nice melody's but becomes repetitive and not a fan of the drumming No - nice use of instrumentation, track feels very dark and haunting, Robert Smith style vocals. Bap De La Bap - Really not a fan of this, vocals are annoying and music sounds like you're queuing for an Alton Towers ride Gloomy Sunday - lovely intro, feels like the smiths but more electronic, big fan of the vocals here both in terms of melody but unsure on the delivery. Nude Spoons - Another one with a good intro. Once again not a huge fan of the delivery on the vocals. This track has a relentless feel to it which I do like. Feels like the bass is too quiet in the mix towards the end. Skipping - Quite a fan of this track, vocal delivery much more to my taste. Baseline is lovely. It's better this way - Great baseline once again too quiet in the mix for me, love the guitar solo, nice tone there. The screechy vocals once again not for me. Party Fears Two - Love the keys in this. Vocals again... Club Country - Love the instrumental on this, by far the best so far, vocals annoying again. Outro has a great mix of a funky bass line with some nice dark effects in the background, however this does go on a bit. Nothinginsomethingparticular - Nice melody but not interesting enough to repeat itself over two minutes. Sounds like a video game theme 18 carret love affair - Really big fan of this track, despite the melody from nothinginsomethingparticular continuing into this song Love hangover - Has a very funky guitar riff, very danceable. Think this is my favourite track on the album and I would listen again. SUMMARY - Think this album is great in terms of production and instrumentation. Has a great goth and early post-punk sound. However, I think that the vocalist really stops many decent songs from being good or great songs.

A great mix of pop and rock on an album full of hits. Love the mixture of futuristic synths mixed with amazing guitar riffs and solos. The record has a lot of great experimental aspects too.

"trousers" Great album from a songwriter perspective but Liam's voice is very jarring and puts a taint on them.

Shine on parts 1-5 - Those 4 notes hey, they just won't go away. welcome to the machine - not been focusing enough but everything I zoned into was greet. could be so many separate songs this. Have a cigar - geetus Wish you were here - proper that absolutely beautiful Parts 6-9 - love it all especially the funky bit

track 1 - can't listen to this without thinking of the idles cover but was a great song track 2 - didn't do too much for me track 3 - didn't do much for me either track 4 - love this one, Solomon burke has a great voice track 5 - really not my sort of thing but his voice is fantastic track 6 - my favourite so far, loved that track 7 - decent this one track 8 - least favourite this one I think track 9 - okay but tracks are all starting to blend into each other at this point track 10 - didn't even realise a new track had started here track 11 - good background listening track 12 - not bad but once again feels like background listening and hard to focus in overall Burke has a great voice but this isn't my sort of thing, works nicely as background listening but that's as far as this goes for me